After its hit animated film The Lego Movie topped worldwide box-office sales, grossing $200 million in less than two weeks, Warner Bros. announced a sequel on Friday. But Lego lovers will have to wait until 2017 to get another dose of plastic bricks....

Reddit and Tumblr recently went crazy over a 1981 Lego print ad, singling it out as emblematic of a time when girls were encouraged to build, rather than be princesses. As inspiring as the ad is, though, the backstory behind it is an equally upliftin...

Christina Stephens just won today's coolest person on the Internet award. In this time-lapse video, she builds herself a prosthetic leg entirely out of LEGOs. Stephens writes, "Someone in my research lab jokingly suggested I make a prosthetic leg out...

Nathan Sawaya is living the dream of every kid -- and kid at heart. The former corporate lawyer builds original, large-scale sculptures using LEGOs, and they're absolutely breathtaking. Sawaya's meticulously crafted sculptures are featured in The Art...

Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen is the billionaire grandson of the founder of LEGO. He was born in the Danish town of Billund -- a rural municipality in Jutland that Copenhagen residents refer to as "hicksville" -- and has made it his mission, given his means...

Lord Voldemort and Gandalf the White (formerly Grey) are the two baddest wizards in town. After all, they've bypassed that whole death thing with Horcruxes and coming back from the dead. And with Dumbledore out of the way, it's only these two vying f...

James Bond has always been known for his suave ability to wield guns, fight bad guys on moving trains and woo the ladies, but is 007 just as deadly cool in LEGO form? Yes, definitely, we have proof. YouTuber coccosnowball intricately remade the openi...

LEGO fans can create their own programmable robot with a new device that works with the Raspberry Pi computer. If you have a Raspberry Pi, the BrickPi system lets you convert the tiny PC into a LEGO robot, as explained in the video above. Raspberry P...

You might still have a vintage Polaroid camera lying around the house that you're glad you held on to for its modern-day cool factor. But is your Polaroid cool enough to be made out of LEGO bricks? LEGO artist Chris McVeigh created a LEGO brick repro...

Ed Sheeran sings about building LEGO houses in his hit song, so it only seems fitting for Sheeran to have a a music video that reflects his subject matter. Enter Dylan Woodley of Insomniac Animations. Woodley spent 50 days recreating Sheeran's entire...

With LEGO, robotics and paper airplanes, this contraption couldn't get much cooler. YouTube user Hknssn built a LEGO robot that folds and launches paper planes. It's as impressive to see in action as it sounds. It took 600 hours to build the device, ...

We always knew Michael Jackson could move. But this video proves that the King of Pop can bring rhythm to just about anything. The animation, by Annette Jung of Talking-Animals in Berlin, shows Jackson shakin' his thing via animated LEGO blocks. SEE ...

LEGO's just released the summer review results from their CUUSOO website, which is a system where modelers can submit their creations in the hopes that they'll eventually become actual sets. Once a submission manages 10,000 votes from the community, ...

The Big Apple has gotten the Lego treatment before, but not like this. Motion designer and 3D artist J.R. Schmidt created this unthinkably detailed map of New York City. In Lego. To scale. J.R. took satellite imagery, then simplified the map down to ...

To recognize 80 years of toy creation, Lego has released this 17-minute story of the company's history. This short film, which can be found on YouTube, is sure to invoke feelings of nostalgia in every adult who loved the plastic brick toy as a kid. T...

With the 2012 Summer Olympics in full swing, you're probably glued to your TV screen -- or the computer screen if you find NBC's delayed telecast unacceptable. But take your eyes off the tube for a bit and treat yourself to this amusing gallery of Le...

I think we can all agree that Legos are the best toy ever. And YouTube videos in which Lego people act out movies and such are the perfect way to break up a dreary day. Well, put in your headphones and close that Excel doc. We bring you: The entire S...

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